User:LukeShu/Solaris

This is a combination of the tables in Solaris (operating system)#Version_history and SunOS. I found it useful to make when reading them for my understanding, but I'm not quite sure which article it belongs in.

SunOS versionSolaris VersionRelease DateCode baseDescription
Sun UNIX 0.7N/A1982UniSoft UNIX v7Bundled with 68000-based Sun-1 system
SunOS 1.019834.1BSDSupport for 68010-based Sun-1 and Sun-2 systems
SunOS 1.1Apr 1984
SunOS 1.2Jan 1985
SunOS 2.0May 19854.2BSDIntroduced virtual file system (VFS) layer and the NFS protocol
SunOS 3.0Feb 19864.2BSD + System V IPCCoincided with release of 68020-based Sun-3 series. Optional System V tape offered utilities and development libraries.
SunOS 3.2Sep 19864.3BSD + System V IPC + some 4.3BSDFirst support for Sun-4 series
SunOS 3.5Jan 1988
SunOS 4.0Dec 19884.3BSD + System V IPCNew virtual memory system, dynamic linking, automounter, System V STREAMS I/O. Sun386i support.
SunOS 4.0.11988
SunOS 4.0.2Sep 1989Sun386i only
SunOS 4.0.3May 1989
SunOS 4.0.3cJun 1989SPARCstation 1 (Sun-4c) only
SunOS 4.1Mar 1990
SunOS 4.1eApr 1991Sun-4e only
SunOS 4.1.1Solaris 1Mar 1990Bundled with OpenWindows 2.0
SunOS 4.1.1BFeb 1991
SunOS 4.1.1.1Jul 1991
SunOS 4.1.1_U1Nov 1991Sun-3/3x only
SunOS 4.1.2Solaris 1.0.1Dec 1991Support for multiprocessor (SPARCserver 600MP) systems; first CD-ROM-only release
SunOS 4.1.3Solaris 1.1 SMCCAug 1992
SunOS 4.1.3CSolaris 1.1CNov 1993SPARCclassic/SPARCstation LX only
SunOS 4.1.3_U1Solaris 1.1.1Dec 1993
SunOS 4.1.3_U1BSolaris 1.1.1BFeb 1994Earliest release for which Y2K compliance patches were available
SunOS 4.1.4Solaris 1.1.2Nov 1994Last release of SunOS 4
SunOS 5.0Solaris 2.0Jun 1992SVR4Preliminary release, support for only the sun4c architecture. First appearance of NIS+.
SunOS 5.1Solaris 2.1Dec 1992 (SPARC)Support for sun4, sun4c and sun4m architectures. First Solaris 2 release to support SMP.
May 1993 (x86)First Solaris x86 release.
SunOS 5.2Solaris 2.2May 1993SPARC-only release. Support for sun4, sun4c, sun4d and sun4m architectures. Support multithreading libraries (UI threads API in libthread)
SunOS 5.3Solaris 2.3Nov 1993SPARC-only release. OpenWindows 3.3 switches from NeWS to Display PostScript and drops SunView support. Support added for autofs and cachefs filesystems.
SunOS 5.4Solaris 2.4Nov 1994First unified SPARC/x86 release. Includes OSF/Motif runtime support.
SunOS 5.5Solaris 2.5Nov 1995First to support UltraSPARC and include CDE, NFSv3 and NFS/TCP. Dropped sun4 (VMEbus) support. POSIX.1c-1995 pthreads added. Doors added but undocumented.
SunOS 5.5.1Solaris 2.5.1May 1996Only release to support PowerPC platform; Ultra Enterprise support added; user and group IDs (uid_t, gid_t) expanded to 32 bits, also included processor sets and early resource management technologies.
SunOS 5.6Solaris 2.6Jul 1997Includes Kerberos 5, PAM, TrueType fonts, WebNFS, large file support, enhanced procfs. SPARCserver 600MP series support dropped.
SunOS 5.7Solaris 7Nov 1998The first 64-bit UltraSPARC release. Added native support for file system meta-data logging (UFS logging). Dropped MCA support on x86 platform. Last update was Solaris 7 11/99.
SunOS 5.8Solaris 8Feb 2000Includes Multipath I/O, IPMP, first support for IPv6 and IPsec (manual keying only), mdb modular debugger. Introduced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC); sun4c support removed. Last update is Solaris 8 2/04.
SunOS 5.9Solaris 9May 2002 (SPARC)iPlanet Directory Server, Resource Manager, Solaris Volume Manager, extended file attributes, IKE IPsec keying, and Linux compatibility added; OpenWindows dropped, sun4d support removed. Most current update is Solaris 9 9/05.
Jan 2003 (x86)
SunOS 5.10Solaris 10Jan 2005Includes x64 (AMD64/EM64T) support, DTrace (Dynamic Tracing), Solaris Containers, Service Management Facility (SMF) which replaces init.d scripts, NFSv4. Least privilege security model. Support for sun4m and UltraSPARC I processors removed. Support for EISA-based PCs removed. Adds Java Desktop System (based on GNOME) as default desktop.
Solaris 10 1/06Jan 2005added the GRUB bootloader for x86 systems, iSCSI Initiator support and fcinfo command-line tool.
Solaris 10 6/06Jun 2006added the ZFS filesystem.
Solaris 10 11/06Nov 2006added Solaris Trusted Extensions and Logical Domains.
Solaris 10 8/07Aug 2007added Samba Active Directory support, IP Instances (part of the OpenSolaris Network Virtualization and Resource Control project), iSCSI Target support and Solaris Containers for Linux Applications (based on branded zones), enhanced version of the Resource Capping Daemon (rcapd).
Solaris 10 5/08May 2008added CPU capping for Solaris Containers, performance improvements, SpeedStep support for Intel processors and PowerNow! support for AMD processors